Bushie, you got some ’splainin’ to do! October 26, 2004 ~ 9:43 am
Posted by Julie in : Daily Grind , comments closedSo the Bush administration knew that there were 380 tons of high explosives in Iraq. They had been warned that the stockpile was vulnerable in May 2003. And yet nobody acted on any of this information? Bush didn’t send anyone to guard this stockpile? He didn’t have any surveillance that could have told him that all those tons of explosives were being moved? How hard is it to track someone moving 380 tons of explosives??
Let’s put this in perspective. Less than one pound of this explosive brought down Pan Am 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland. If one pound can bring down a jet plane, what can hundreds of tons of it do? John Kerry’s right. By fucking this one up, Bush has endangered all our sevicemen and women. But I have a bad feeling that he’s endangered those of us who aren’t in the Mid East, too. You know those explosives have already left Iraq. Whoever took them has had time to get them out of there. Those explosives have already been distributed throughout the Mid East and possibly beyond.
And now this administration can’t explain how or when the stockpile went missing, and Dubya himself is not saying anything about it. His staff is saying that Kerry is blowing things out of proportion because nobody knows when the explosives went missing, and besides, they’ve already gotten rid of a lot of other explosives. Somehow that doesn’t make me feel better. I’m glad we’ve destroyed other explosives, but that doesn’t make these ones any less of a threat. And the fact that the explosives could have gone missing at any point in the past four years doesn’t put my mood meter to “joyful” either. They’re still missing.
Remember how our Commander in Chief couldn’t name any mistakes he’s made? Well, the next time someone asks him that question, I think he’s got an answer. He probably won’t admit the mistake even then, but the rest of us know better.
